Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when you hear the clan of aquamen exclaim "suits on heads" you'd better be ready for more than a few hand claps...
...RICO law had already been used to indict some Mafia clan leaders in New York (including Carmine Persico, 51, a Colombo family chieftain), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Rochester. Charges of skimming $2 million in cash from casinos in Las Vegas have also been leveled against high Mafia figures in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee...
...odder telling would be hard to confect. Vincent Castleton, 43, an English banker in New Orleans, has married Marguerite Benoir, also known as Mim or Mimi to the handful of people on earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir, ended in a car crash that killed one of the world's most dashing multimillionaires...
...trying to make a revolution." Hooker said of the left-wing Sandinista government that in 1979 overthrew the right-wing U.S. backed Somoza clan, adding that he fears the Reagan Administration's intervention will prevent the revolution's success...
...warehouse in the Colon Free Trade Zone, a busy international transshipment center. There they found 17,000 55-gal. barrels of ether, worth about $1 million and enough to process around 200,000 kilos of cocaine. Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely...